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In reply to the discussion: Pets are 'scared' and look around for their owners in dying moments. [View all]qazplm135
(7,447 posts)a child is not equal to a pet. If a burning building has my child and my pet in it and I can only save one, no human in their right mind has a hard choice to make.
We don't euthanize humans, we do euthanize pets, another difference.
I know specifically that treatment for cancer in humans is very different from cats...the latter isn't really designed to cure because the doses that might do that would cause pain and suffering that humans can bear or decide to bear, and pets cannot.
Finally, even if pets and human family members were the same, people often do not die with family members holding their hands the moment they pass. Loved ones tell them they love them, then there is usually a period of semi consciousness to unconsciousness to death.